Graduate lectures on
Kinetics of waves and particles in plasmas

11-30, March 6, 2003	Introduction into kinetics of waves and particles	[notes as ps file]
10-00, March 10, 2003	Wave-particle interactions in plasma	[notes as ps file]
10-00, March 17, 2003	Wave-wave interactions in plasma	[notes as ps file]

Appendix: Complex integration and definite real integrals [notes as ps file]

Numerical Example 1: Relaxation of an unstable distribution of electrons [mpeg file]
Numerical Example 2: Quasilinear relaxation plus three-wave decay and scattering off ions [mpeg file]

Literature:

Lifshitz, E.M., and Pitaevski, L.P. , Physical kinetics, Oxford, Pergamon, (1981)
Tsytovich, V.N. , Lectures on Non-linear Plasma Kinetics, Springer, New York, (1995)
Melrose, D.B. , Plasma Astrophysics, vol I and II, (1980)
Musher, S.L. et al, Physics Reports, 252, 178 , (1995)